BRITISH AND AMERICAN ELOQUENCE PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham (1708-1778), had his early training at Eton and at Trinity College, Oxford. On account of ill health he did not finish his college course but spent much time in travel on the continent of Europe. While his collegiate training was not so extended as that of some of his compeers, yet he possessed a high order of intellect, a retentive memory, and the tenacity of purpose which enabled him to accomplish more as a statesman than any of his contemporaries. His rhetorical studies were very thorough. While at Eton and Oxford, and for years afterwards, he devoted himself to the study and translation of the Greek and Roman orators. Demosthenes was his model, and it was his favorite I |